by VSF | Apr 8, 2025 | News
Over the past decade, the Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN) has invested significant effort into standardizing training for Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs). As the lead consultant in this process, Dr. Yakubu Yanet Ago shares his journey and insights into the...
by VSF | Apr 7, 2025 | News, News
The concept of Community Animal Health workers emerged in Madagascar in the early 1990s. From 1991 to 1993, Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF) initiated the first CAHW programme in the Amoron’i Mania region by training a dozen CAHWs under the...
by VSF | Jun 24, 2024 | News
VSF International has recently been actively involved in major international events, highlighting our Community Animal Health Workers (CAHW) project. 39th Congress of the World Veterinary Association From April 16 to 19, we joined animal health professionals from...
by VSF | Jun 18, 2024 | News
From May 26 to 30, 2024, VSF International had the honor of participating in the annual General Session of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) held in Paris. Earlier this year, we renewed our partnership agreement with WOAH for an additional two years,...
by VSF | Jun 3, 2024 | News
VSF International is excited to announce the launch of the Local Engagement and Response Network (LEARN) project, funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). This five-year initiative, running from October 2023 to June 2028, aims to enhance the...
by VSF | Apr 12, 2024 | News
From July to October 2023, our French member AVSF led a team of consultants to conduct a case study on Village Animal Health Workers (VAHWs) in Cambodia, as part of the USAID/BHA-funded project on CAHWs that VSF International is jointly implementing with the World...
by VSF | Nov 22, 2023 | News, News and Multimedia
On 26th September 2023, VSF Belgium held the final workshop of the case study on CAHWs in Burundi, in collaboration with the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Environment (MINEAGRIE). This case study was the third to be performed as part of the USAID/BHA-funded...
by VSF | Sep 12, 2023 | News
Over the past few months, VSF Suisse, in collaboration with VSF Germany, has been coordinating the case study on CAHWs’ success and failure factors in South Sudan, as part of the USAID/BHA-funded project on CAHWs that VSF International is jointly implementing with...
by VSF | Aug 6, 2023 | News, News and Multimedia
As part of the USAID/BHA-funded project on community animal health workers (CAHWs) that we are implementing with WOAH (founded as OIE), a case study was performed by our member, VSF Belgium, to assess key success and failure factors of current CAHW programmes in...
by VSF | Mar 20, 2023 | News
March 2023, we are almost halfway through Phase 1 of the project “Strengthening the enabling environment for community animal health workers (CAHWs) through development of competency and curricula guidelines”, funded by the USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance...
